History

Western historians consider the Sumerian Epic ofGilgamesh as the oldest literary work in history.

Gilgamesh was a giant, part Anunaki (those who came from the sky to earth) who ruled the world.

The Anunnaki used to go around and impregnate all virgins to live their lineage as rulers of humanity. The only one Gilgamesh could not conquer was Enkidu, the hairy Wild Man living in the wilderness.

After luring Enkidu with temptress to enter the city, Gilgamesh fought him, but after wrestling for a long night none could overpower the other, so they became best friends.

Enkidu and Gilgamesh traveled over wide distances to fight giants and monsters and after a series if victories Enkidu was poisoned felt sick and died causing Gilgamesh to grieve bitterly.

In ancient Mesopotamia was a cult of enkiduism in which men covered themselves with animal pelts and went to live as hermits in the wilderness to fast and pay penance to their sins.

According to the Book of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon lived seven such years in the wilderness as a wild animal.

In Celtic lore, warrior fights Grogoch the wild man fir a while night but ends up becoming best friends.

Biblical Jacob fight the angel all night. Biblical brother Esau was born covered with hair all over the body, a rather rare trait.

On the dry bed of the Paluxy River in Texas footprints were found beside and under dinosaur tracks. They were destroyed and the fosiles concealed.Other petrified footprints in Arizona New Mexico Nevada Alaska South Africa Namibia have been dated as far back as three hundred million years old.

China has a multi millenia tradition of sightings of Yeren or wild men hairy wilderness dwellers reported in chronicles and archives since the beginning of Chinese literature.theybwere alsinreferred to as Maoren (Hairy Men), Tenshiomg (Bear Men), Xueren (Snow Men), or Shangui (Mountain Ogres).

Shan Hai Jing encyclopedia compiled 2500 years ago describes Yeren and includes drawings.

Li Shizhenbspent ten years consulting eight hundred books and writing medical compendium in which he describes different types of Yeren.

Records from Hubei in the seventeen century mention ten foot tall Hairy Wild Men living in caves in the remote mountains of Fangxian County who came down in the villages to steal dogs and chicken.

In most accounts, counting the Shan Hai Jing and the ancient odes, the Yeren can reach one Zhang in height which equals to about three meters and they are depicted as ape -like or monkey-like hairy men. There are also in some regions Yeren that do not grow taller than three feet. Yerevan either walk standing or on all four , be vegetarian or carnivorous, make nests of bamboo or live in the caves

In the Popol uh Mayan codices , rhe sky God's created five intelligent species to live on earth, the last of which is Humanity, while the previous one before us was the hairy "Monkey People"

Such story of creation with successive intelligent species is not exclusive to Maya, but is one more example of ancient cultures knowing Human like species having preceded humans.

Hairy Wild Man was part of the earliest Human records and since the beginning considered as a powerful magical being and an ally helping humanity.

For the Eastern historians, the Vedic scriptures predate the sumerian Cuneiforms by a very long count. In the Ramayana epic, Rama receives help from an army of Vanara literary translated as "Forest Men" described as ape like men covered with hair with tremendous physically strength and psychic powers.

The Varana led by Hanuman built a stone Bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka still visible to this day.

Then they conquered Sri Lanka and the demon Ravana, king of the reptilianshape shifting Rakshasa and his army, including giants, to free Rama's wife Sita who have been abducted in an aerial chariot.
Today Hanuman is the Hindu diety that has the largest number of temples and sites dedicated to him.